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First, you will want to find some Crystal Ore, which is very common and gives off light!

Then, you will want to smelt your ore into Crystal Shards.

Then, craft your crystal shards into a crystal pick. (just like a normal pickaxe but with crystal shards) The only thing is, the crystal pick isn't useful at all because its too fragile to mine! But you need one to craft your mining window.

After that, you will craft your crystal shards and crystal pick into one Mining Window like so:

I know the mining window may not look like much, but its function is all worth it

What the block does, is allows you to look through blocks and find things underneath!

How it works:

Basically, the Mining Window block is supposed to behave like a normal block, BUT the texture is see-through! That way, it allows you to see through your world! Pretty neat, huh?

Now you can also craft Crystal Dust, out of your extra Crystal Shards.

Return Recipe:

You can use Crystal Dust on every ore (except redstone) and it will drop whatever it usually drops, HOWEVER, it will also leave the stone that the material was in, right where it was before.

Reviews/Spotlights!

Thanks to iampeppino, PhobicBus, D4LMinecraft and Artemosky for the mod spotlights!

I've always liked the idea of a craftable x-ray block. My suggestions would be to either: make the crystal ores much rarer; increase the crafting cost somehow (A diamond pick instead?), or make it like glass so if you try and pick it up it just breaks.

I've always liked the idea of a craftable x-ray block. My suggestions would be to either: make the crystal ores much rarer; increase the crafting cost somehow (A diamond pick instead?), or make it like glass so if you try and pick it up it just breaks.

Thanks for the suggestions! I'l be making the ore much rarer later today and probably changing the recipe as well

oh please, nice use of the code that has been used so many god damn times. I can even recite it;

public int getRenderBlockPass()
{
return 1;
}

It's not hard to do, you really need to challenge yourself more. An example of a mod that is top of the top is Industrial Craft, which I don't expect you to be able to produce at this level. Instead of making simple mods like this, start adventuring into minecraft's code and amalgamate what is already provided and add in new things as well. I made a mod in which the missile fired from the launcher will mimic the player's rotation, so it's basically steerable.

And by the way, I discovered the code for this "mining window" accidentally, proving that it doesn't take a genius to find it, but by challenging yourself you can achieve much more advanced and interesting mods free from the limits of lesser Java knowledge

oh please, nice use of the code that has been used so many god damn times. I can even recite it;

public int getRenderBlockPass()
{
return 1;
}

It's not hard to do, you really need to challenge yourself more. An example of a mod that is top of the top is Industrial Craft, which I don't expect you to be able to produce at this level. Instead of making simple mods like this, start adventuring into minecraft's code and amalgamate what is already provided and add in new things as well. I made a mod in which the missile fired from the launcher will mimic the player's rotation, so it's basically steerable.

And by the way, I discovered the code for this "mining window" accidentally, proving that it doesn't take a genius to find it, but by challenging yourself you can achieve much more advanced and interesting mods free from the limits of lesser Java knowledge

Omg i make simple mods! So what? Lots of people like simple mods because some of them are pretty useful. Good for you for knowing lots of java, for me, the first time i ever wrote any java was about 3 days ago so cut me some slack, an if you dont like my mod then go download something else instead of just wasting your time making fun of someone whos trying to get into more advanced modding but has just started. Also im in the middle of making a bigger more complex mod, im just also making smaller mods during it

oh please, nice use of the code that has been used so many god damn times. I can even recite it;

public int getRenderBlockPass()
{
return 1;
}

It's not hard to do, you really need to challenge yourself more. An example of a mod that is top of the top is Industrial Craft, which I don't expect you to be able to produce at this level. Instead of making simple mods like this, start adventuring into minecraft's code and amalgamate what is already provided and add in new things as well. I made a mod in which the missile fired from the launcher will mimic the player's rotation, so it's basically steerable.

And by the way, I discovered the code for this "mining window" accidentally, proving that it doesn't take a genius to find it, but by challenging yourself you can achieve much more advanced and interesting mods free from the limits of lesser Java knowledge

IC ruins feel of minecraft. Idk why people like this, IC doesn't suit the game.
Even if it's a "masterpiece" of coding, it's out of the theme. Minecraft is about mining and crafting, not about automatizing these two.

Kopo, some people like industrialcraft so don't start mouthing off tht ic is stupid.

Where did i say in my post that ic is stupid? Where? Nowhere is the right answer.
IC has a good design, great decisions on various themes.
I was just saying that ic doesn't suit the theme of minecraft, theme of surviving in uninhabited world. Where is industry here, i can not understand. Maybe if it was a mod for Infiniminer i would understand that, because it was about some futuristic times, etc.

Where did i say in my post that ic is stupid? Where? Nowhere is the right answer.
IC has a good design, great decisions on various themes.
I was just saying that ic doesn't suit the theme of minecraft, theme of surviving in uninhabited world. Where is industry here, i can not understand. Maybe if it was a mod for Infiniminer i would understand that, because it was about some futuristic times, etc.

Ok, Industrial Craft is cool, this mod is simple compared to it, I don't care!